{"id":1055964,"date":"2025-09-10T10:58:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T14:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1055964"},"modified":"2025-09-10T10:58:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T14:58:04","slug":"trumps-billionaire-first-budget-shutters-health-clinics-in-rural-virginia-while-earle-sears-and-virginia-republicans-remain-silent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trumps-billionaire-first-budget-shutters-health-clinics-in-rural-virginia-while-earle-sears-and-virginia-republicans-remain-silent\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Billionaire-First Budget Shutters Health Clinics in Rural Virginia While Earle-Sears and Virginia Republicans Remain Silent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"449\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1050776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png 1101w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=300,132 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=768,337 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=1024,449 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whsv.com\/2025\/09\/04\/augusta-health-consolidate-clinics-partly-response-big-beautiful-bill\/?utm_source=Spanberger+for+Governor+Press+List&amp;utm_campaign=ba482e5142-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_09_08_01_40&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_-ba482e5142-506626301\">New reporting<\/a> this week revealed three rural health clinics in Virginia will close because of the passage of Trump and Republicans\u2019 billionaire-first budget that rips health care away from working families and jeopardizes rural health care access, while Republicans like Winsome Earle-Sears praise Trump\u2019s attacks on working families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A reminder:<\/strong> Winsome Earle-Sears has had multiple opportunities to condemn these rural hospital closures but has refused every time. She endorsed Trump\u2019s billionaire-first budget that&#8217;s devastating rural hospitals and jeopardizing the health care of hundreds of thousands of Virginians.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In response to the news of the impending clinic closures in rural Virginia and Winsome Earle-Sears\u2019 silence, <\/em><strong><em>DNC Chair Ken Martin released the following statement:&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump and Republicans knew their billionaire-first budget would destroy nursing homes and shutter the rural hospitals and health care systems that countless families rely on. But as long as their billionaire buddies got a tax cut, they didn\u2019t care. Republican gubernatorial nominee Winsome Earle-Sears endorsed Trump\u2019s billionaire-first budget that has now led to the loss of three health care clinics in rural Virginia. No Virginian can trust Earle-Sears to be governor when she\u2019s all too fine with her own constituents losing health care. While Republicans like her enable Trump\u2019s reckless agenda that has destroyed jobs, spiked costs, and closed rural hospitals, Abigail Spanberger and Virginia Democrats are offering real leadership \u2014 where working families are the priority, not corrupt billionaires.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Virginia has been devastated by Donald Trump and Republicans\u2019 reckless agenda. Since Trump took office:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Unemployment rates in Virginia have <a href=\"https:\/\/fred.stlouisfed.org\/series\/VAUR\">skyrocketed<\/a>, and Virginia has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/07\/10\/virginia-drops-top-states-for-business-america-ranking.html\">dropped<\/a> in America\u2019s top states for business rankings, thanks to Trump\u2019s reckless layoffs and funding freezes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The health care of more than 350,000 Virginians has been <a href=\"https:\/\/abigailspanberger.us12.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=d13853f424018d72a5683123b&amp;id=37d7ea0cf8&amp;e=b0722c0741\">placed in jeopardy<\/a>.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nearly 535,000 Virginians could see their health care premiums <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scc.virginia.gov\/media\/sccvirginiagov-home\/consumer-home\/insurance\/life-amp-health\/tips-guides-amp-publications\/ratedataandmap2026.pdf\">increase<\/a> significantly.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>At least <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markey.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/letter_on_rural_hospitals.pdf?utm_source=Spanberger+for+Governor+Press+List&amp;utm_campaign=ba482e5142-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_09_08_01_40&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_-ba482e5142-506626301\">six<\/a> rural hospitals in Virginia are now at risk of closure.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New reporting this week revealed three rural health clinics in Virginia will close because of the passage of Trump and Republicans\u2019 billionaire-first budget that rips health care away from working families and jeopardizes rural health care access, while Republicans like Winsome Earle-Sears praise Trump\u2019s attacks on working families. A reminder: Winsome Earle-Sears has had multiple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":293,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1055964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Trump\u2019s Billionaire-First Budget Shutters Health Clinics in Rural Virginia While Earle-Sears and Virginia Republicans Remain Silent - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trumps-billionaire-first-budget-shutters-health-clinics-in-rural-virginia-while-earle-sears-and-virginia-republicans-remain-silent\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-09-10T14:58:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1101\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"483\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Shelby Reese\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Shelby Reese\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trumps-billionaire-first-budget-shutters-health-clinics-in-rural-virginia-while-earle-sears-and-virginia-republicans-remain-silent\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trumps-billionaire-first-budget-shutters-health-clinics-in-rural-virginia-while-earle-sears-and-virginia-republicans-remain-silent\/\",\"name\":\"Trump\u2019s Billionaire-First Budget Shutters Health Clinics in Rural Virginia While Earle-Sears and Virginia Republicans Remain Silent - 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